Made up? From the GPT-2 announcement: https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/ https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/ "Due to our concerns ab

Made up? From the GPT-2 announcement: https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/ https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/ "Due to our concerns about malicious applications of the technology, we are not releasing the trained model." OpenAI said specifically they didn't release it because they thought it was too dangerous to release. There was nothing about precedent setting in there. The idea that this "was and remains" a good thing is hard to understand, given there are dozens of companies that have made much more powerful models available to anyone who signs up and nothing bad has happened. But if you're willing to ascribe intentions to AI companies they never demonstrated having, of course you can argue anything you want. Doesn't mean it's real.